Sophisticated Drug Smuggling

Started by Solar, August 17, 2019, 11:04:10 AM

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Solar

Freakin amazing! Check out the video.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/over-380kg-of-cocaine-worth-144m-found-inside-excavator-in-nsw-20190715-p527g4.html


The drugs arrived into Australia in a second-hand 20-tonne Caterpillar excavator, shipped out of South Africa and into the Port Botany container terminal.

Border Force officers were suspicious about the origins of the heavy equipment and X-rayed sections of it. "Anomalies" were found and investigated.

The cocaine was concealed within the hollow steel hydraulic lifting arm of the excavator.

From both a local and a national perspective, the Bungendore arrests are significant.

Police estimate the drugs found inside the excavator are equal to 2 million street deals.

"To put this in perspective, in the 2017-18 financial year approximately 795 kilograms of cocaine were detected at the border; this 384 kilogram delivery represents almost half that," Border Force acting deputy commissioner of operations Sharon Huey said.

She described Australia as a "lucrative market" for cocaine.

It is suspected that the target market for the cocaine was Canberra, the South Coast and the Snowy Mountains region.

"I suspect this is not an insignificant hit to the syndicate; $144 million is a lot of income," ACT Chief Police Officer Ray Johnston said.



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I sure some will die over this as $144 million is a lot of money.

But I am sure they will find a good use for the excavator.  :lol:
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Quote from: walkstall on August 17, 2019, 12:38:18 PM
I sure some will die over this as $144 million is a lot of money.

But I am sure they will find a good use for the excavator.  :lol:
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Street value isn't the amount lost by the drug smugglers.  The excavator and shipping cost were the major loss to the smugglers.  The drugs inside the arm were cheap to produce. 

The $144 million is just an inflated street value to make it sound like the drug warriors scored big. 

The drug smugglers were more then made whole on the other 4 shipments that made it through.